Emergency Medicine: The Principles of Practice
Author(s): Gordian W. O. Fulde & Sascha Fulde
The ultimate emergency medicine textbook from the renowned Professor Gordian Fulde now in a new edition. Emergency Medicine 6e presents evidence-based clinical management and treatment advice for emergency medicine students and practitioners in Australasia. The vast range of topics include paediatric, geriatric, gynaecology, psychiatric, dental, rural and Indigenous presentations, ensuring readers are well prepared for any eventuality in the Emergency Department. This outstanding text combines expertise and experience with fully up-to-date content. It is authored by Professor Gordian Fulde, Emergency Department director at Sydney’s St Vincent's Hospital, with contributions from Dr Sascha Fulde and over 60 other notable emergency medicine clinicians. Readers will gain a solid understanding of effective procedural and management skills in the ED. Practical tips relate to: patient transport and retrieval; seriously ill patients; advanced nursing roles; general practitioners; working with IT; administration, legal matters, governance and quality care; and interns and students in the emergency department. The ideal complement to hands-on emergency medicine training, this new edition of Emergency Medicine also prepares readers to apply key emergency medicine skills to unique incidents such as mass casualty and chemical, biological and radiological hazard contingencies. Topics included in this edition of Emergency Medicine include: • securing the airway • resuscitation • arrhythmia management • pain management • imaging • dermatology • trauma • poisoning • envenomation • overdose
Product Information
1. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation 2. Securing the airway and ventilation: Resuscitation procedures 3. Resuscitation and emergency procedures 4. Ultrasound in emergency medicine 5. The patient with chest pain, dyspnoea or haemoptysis 6. Acute Myocardial infarction 7. Respiratory emergencies, acute breathlessness 8. Acute pulmonary oedema 9. Pulmonary embolis and venous thrombosis 10. Shock 11. Clinical Electrocardiology and arrhythmia management 12. Trauma 13. Neurosurgical emergencies 14. Aortic and vascular emergencies 15. Orthopaedic principles, fractures and dislocations 16. Hand injuries and care 17. Urological emergencies 18. Burns 19. Pain control and analgesia 20. Patient transport and retrieval 21. Mass casualty, chemical, biological and radiological hazard contingencies 22. Neurology 23. Sick patients and tips 24. Gastrointestinal emergencies 25. Poisoning, overdosage and alcohol 26. Drowning 27. Envenomation 28. Electrical injuries 29. Hypothermia, hyperthermia 30. Childhood emergencies 31. Geriatric care 32. Emergency gynaecology 33. Endocrine emergencies 34. Metabolic disorders 35. Ophthalmic emergencies 36. Ear, nose and throat emergencies 37. Dental emergencies 38. Mental health presentations 39. Dermatological presentations to emergency 40. Infectious diseases 41. The immunocompromised patient 42. Haematology 43. Diagnostic imaging 44. Rural emergencies, indigenous or remote emergency attendances 45. Advanced nursing roles 46. Working with IT and the General Practitioner 47. Quality emergency care and administration 48. Students guide to an emergency term
General Fields
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- : Elsevier Australia
- : Churchill Livingstone
- : 31 August 2013
- : 195 x 130 mm
- : Australia
- : 01 September 2013
- : books
Special Fields
- : Gordian W. O. Fulde & Sascha Fulde
- : Paperback
- : 6th Revised edition
- : 616.025
- : 1027
- : Illustrations
